Major Taylor Quotes

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.

Around 2015, I started to see my skills diminish. It happens to everybody. Father Time is undefeated. He is gonna win every time, and I saw him catching me.

Time catches everyone. Sooner or later, it gets everybody.

We have been conditioned to see the passing of time as an adversary.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.

By the time I met Julia Child, her husband, Paul, was little more than a ghost of a man, so diminished by old age and its attendant diseases that it was impossible to discern the remarkable artist, photographer and poet he once had been.

We die only once, and for such a long time.

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal.

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.

Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.

When you're young, you think life is forever, but it's finite. I'm 68, so even by the maddest measurements, I'm in the last bit of life.

The public is absolutely fascinated by aging. They don't want to get old. And you can see - read Shakespeare. Read the sonnets. They're all about aging.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

You can only live to be so old, then you gotta let go.

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.

In your mid-20s, you think you'll go on for eternity. Then a point comes where you realise that's not going to be the case.

Even when you're 22 and you feel immortal, you know in your heart you're not.

Mother Nature and Father Time have not been happy with me.

Before you know it, I'm not going to be able to tie these boots up and do what I do in the ring for my whole life. We're all getting older, so I'm trying to live in the moment and enjoy everything that's being thrown at me.

Father Time is whether you're an athlete or not an athlete. Father Time is always around. I think I'm just special.

You think about it sometimes. I try not to think about it too much. You think about you can't play forever.